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Hace 4 días · Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.
Hace 3 días · Sunita Williams is an American astronaut who set records on her two flights to the International Space Station. Her two spaceflights combined lasted more than 321 days, ranking her second, after American astronaut Peggy Whitson, for the most time spent in space by a woman.
Hace 5 días · Neil Armstrong (born August 5, 1930, Wapakoneta, Ohio, U.S.—died August 25, 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio) was a U.S. astronaut, and the first person to set foot on the Moon.
Hace 1 día · His second wife was Beverly Van Zile, whom he married on December 31, 1975, and divorced in 1978. His third wife was Lois Driggs Cannon, whom he married on February 14, 1988. Their divorce was finalized in December 2012.
Hace 4 días · The Apollo 8 crew, now living in the crew quarters at Kennedy Space Center, received a visit from Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the night before the launch. They talked about how, before his 1927 flight , Lindbergh had used a piece of string to measure the distance from New York City to Paris on a globe and ...
Hace 7 horas · On Saturday morning, two astronauts were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame durin g a ceremony held under Space Shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex — a spacecraft of ...
Hace 4 días · The Astronaut’s Wife an especially creepy subplot of this sci-fi horror movie is about the titular character’s pregnancy. Blessed (2004) an infertile couple is desperate to have a baby, so they move to a new town to try out an experimental fertility clinic.
